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Weekly mandatory food
waste collections
What are the new rules on food waste collections and why are
councils set to miss the March deadline? Ashfords’ energy
and resource management team explain.
Weekly mandatory food
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What are the new rules on food waste collections and why are
councils set to miss the March deadline? Ashfords’ energy
and resource management team explain.


The Procurement Act 2023: One Year On -
How procurement processes are evolving
Katherine Calder and Sarah Foster of DAC Beachcroft focus on
changes to procurement design at selection and tender stage in
three key areas of change that the Act introduced.
The Procurement Act 2023: One Year On -
How procurement processes are evolving
Katherine Calder and Sarah Foster of DAC Beachcroft focus on
changes to procurement design at selection and tender stage in
three key areas of change that the Act introduced.


Service charge recovery
and the Building Safety Act 2022
Zoe McGovern, Sian Gibbon and Caroline Frampton set out
what local authorities need to consider when it comes to
the Building Safety Act 2022 and service charge recovery.
Service charge recovery
and the Building Safety Act 2022
Zoe McGovern, Sian Gibbon and Caroline Frampton set out
what local authorities need to consider when it comes to
the Building Safety Act 2022 and service charge recovery.


Fix it fast: How “Awaab’s Law”
is forcing action
Eleanor Jones sets out
what "Awaab's Law"
will mean in practice
for social landlords.
Fix it fast: How “Awaab’s Law”
is forcing action
Eleanor Jones sets out
what "Awaab's Law"
will mean in practice
for social landlords.


Housing management
in practice
Rebecca Rees provides
key takeaways on six key
challenges in housing
management including
how to tackle anti-
social behaviour.
Housing management
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Rebecca Rees provides
key takeaways on six key
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Why AI must power
the next wave
of Social Housing
delivery
For years, national housing policy has wrestled with the tension
between aspiration and delivery. Targets have been set and missed;
waiting lists have grown longer and the most vulnerable people
in our society have been left with fewer safe, affordable places to
call home. Technology has a key role to play to address this
situation writes Andrew Lloyd of Search Acumen.
Why AI must power
the next wave
of Social Housing
delivery
For years, national housing policy has wrestled with the
tension between aspiration and delivery. Targets have been
set and missed; waiting lists have grown longer, and the
most vulnerable people in our society have been left with fewer
safe, affordable places to call home. Technology has a
key role to play to address this situation writes Andrew Lloyd
of Search Acumen.

Local Government Reorganisation 2026
Features
The Hillsborough Law Bill: implications for public bodies
Dispensing with notice to father
Court of Protection case update April 2026
The ERA – Benefits and Working Conditions
Asylum hotels, overcrowding and the HMO rules
Defective but not fatal
Intervention: the Monitoring Officer’s view
The role of the backbench councillor
FOI and information held on computer systems
Correcting mistakes in public decision making
The Supreme Court on termination of JCT contracts
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Housing delivery stalling - role of local authorities
Renters’ Rights Act 2025 - what it means for local authorities
DOLS and Under 16s: Insights from Medway Council v A Father
The powers of exclusion panels
Removal from kinship care
When school discipline meets disability
Navigating the expansion of foster care
No "clinical decision" exemption from best interests
Local Government Reorganisation 2026
Adoption vs long-term fostering
Care leavers and redaction of records
“Unusual facts and procedural irregularities”
Planning appeals and costs awards
Land value and the principle of reality
The latest Sizewell C JR
Impecuniosity and other issues in credit hire claims
Disclosure to the DBS
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Claimants eye appeal after High Court rejects challenge over SEND cuts proposed by council
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Claimants eye legal action against developer and possibly council over former gasworks site
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Claimants fail in legal challenge over whether now-defunct council had lawful authority to issue enforcement notice
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Claimants fail in Planning Court challenge to application of sequential test in national policy on flood risk
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Claimants get green light for legal challenge to post-16 school transport policy of county council
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Claimants given permission to bring judicial review over Bristol SEND "safety valve" deal
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Claimants in European Court of Human Rights bid after Supreme Court refuses permission to appeal in dispute over approach of regulator to landfill site
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Claimants lose appeal over decision by minister not to call in major development
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Claimants lose challenge to reconfiguration of stroke services in Kent and closure of unit
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Claimants say Government sewage overflow plan contrary to ancient common law rights in pre-action letter
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Claimants secure key High Court ruling on timeframe for reviewing Education, Health and Care plans
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Claimants to challenge Government in High Court over smartphone use in schools
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Claimants to urge High Court to reconsider refusal of permission for statutory review over coal mine planning decision
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Claimants vow to appeal after High Court dismisses challenge over “downgrading” during pandemic of rights of children with SEN
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Claimants vow to appeal High Court dismissal in Oxford bridge dispute
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Claimants win challenge over decision by council that mother was not destitute
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Claimants win judicial review challenge against Environment Agency over water abstraction in Norfolk Broads
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Claimants win legal challenge over decisions by council to withdraw funding for holidays and cease direct payments used for outings and recreational activities
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Claimants win legal challenge over grant of planning permission for 350-home site after “seriously misleading” officer advice
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Claimants with High Court battle with council over whether road was “road to which the public have access”
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